First Links — 1.27.14

The Secular Is Haunted
James K. A. Smith,
Theos

Reviewing Reviews: Where Will It All End?
Sam Leith, Spectator

Split Personalities
Andrew McConnell Stott, Lapham’s Quarterly

Polanyi’s Political Economy
Mark T. Mitchell, Anamnesis

On “Selling” the Church’s Message
David Warren, Essays in Idleness

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